Europe and the world have been preparing for this war for a long time. They were gearing up, although there was a common feeling that it was unlikely. The bloody experiences of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries seemed to be a sufficient lesson for the next generations. It was believed tha
Fate has lovingly linked Mira, called Mimi, a prisoner of the Majdanek, Ravensbrück and Buchenwald camps, with Józef, the prisoner of Auschwitz. After the war, the woman and her lover ended up in Birkenau, where she helped to create a local museum. However, her intricate history began much earlier,
At the end of the 18th century, traveling was as exciting as it was tedious and dangerous. Roads were not invested everywhere, railroads were yet to come, and the fastest (and often the only available) mode of transport was by ship. And although going on a cruise sounds romantic, the reality was def
At the beginning of the 20th century and more specifically in its second decade (1914-1918), the visual and architectural movements of the European avant-garde (futurism, cubism , constructivism, Bauhaus, etc.), rejected both the academicism and the adherence of their predecessors to History, consid